New Saucy Magazine Visual Revealed for Oregairu Zoku

The most recent issue of Megami magazine has revealed a brand new visual for the upcoming second season anime adaptation of Wataru Watari and Ponkan8’s Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) light novel series, Oregairu Zoku. The new visual itself is a little saucy showcasing Yukino and Yui in traditional yukatas, with Yui showing off a bit of skin.

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The anime will debut on TBS at 1:46am JST on April 3rd, on CBC at 2:47am JST on the same day, followed by a broadcast on TUT on the 5th at 1:53 am JST and on April 8th on MBS at 3:30am JST. The anime will then be rebroadcasted on BS-TBS on the 12th at 1:00am JST.

The anime character designer for Oregairu will not be working on Oregairu Zoku, so a new set of redesigns have been produced. The original anime character designer for the first series was Yuu Shindou (Persona 4 The Golden Animation) and the new anime character designer for Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku will be Yuichi Tanaka (Toaru Majutsu no Index, Last Exile).

The character designs were earlier released, albeit without any colour. The uncoloured character designs alongside their voice actors/actresses includes:

Takuya Eguchi (Kazuya Kujou in Gosick) will voice Hachiman Hikigaya

Saori Hayami (Ayase Aragaki from Oreimo) is back as Yukino Yukinoshita

Nagi Yanagi will return to voice the Opening song for the second season singing the song Harumodoki. She performed the OP of first season of the Oregairu anime, Yukitoki. The Ending theme song will once again be sung by Saori Hayami Nao Touyama who voice the main characters in the anime and also performed the ED of the anime’s first season.

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) is a light novel series written by Wataru Watari and illustrated by Ponkan8. The light novels began in March 2011 and is published in Shogakukan’s Gagaga Bunko imprint. To date there has been 9 volumes and 4 short stories published. There has been three spin-off manga adaptations written and illustrated by various people. The series also received an anime adaptation that aired in April 2012 that was animated by Brain’s Base (Baccano!, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun). Additionally, a visual novel was developed by 5pb. for the PlayStation Vita that released on September 19th last year. The second season of the anime was announced early this year.

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

This romantic comedy revolves around an antisocial high school student named Hikigaya Hachiman with a distorted view on life and no friends or girlfriend. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about living their adolescent lives, he mutters: “They’re a bunch of liars.” When he isasked about his future dreams, he responds, “Not working.” A teacher gets Hachiman to join the “Volunteer Service” club, which happens to have the school’s prettiest girl, Yukinoshita Yukino.

The second season of the anime, Oregiaru Zoku, will be airing from April 3 during the Spring 2015 anime season. Any additional information will be revealed in the upcoming days.